Monday, March 12, 2007

Local "liberal" woman runs as a man

My community is very conservative, but there are liberals here, even serious liberals (like me). One of the big liberals in our town is a woman who served as Cindy Sheehan's attorney and sponsor, was president of the local NAACP, and even lost her scout troop. She is running for the city council--talk about a snowball's chance in hell--and her signs say we should vote for her for "councilman at large."

Give me a break. First, as conservative as people are around here, I don't think they object at all to women calling themselves women. And anyway, it is delusional to think that taking out the cursed "w" word is going to help you if you are already known as one of most evil liberals in the community. It's bad enough when women like Hillary Rodham and Teresa Heinz change their names to suit their husbands' candidacies, but for a woman in the 21st Century to change her gender is ridiculous.

Of course, there is also the outside chance that the candidate is one of those many liberals who does not include feminism on her liberal agenda. I don't know. I don't live in the city anymore, so the election isn't my business. But the cowardice of this woman's campaign sign makes me not respect her.